The film shares the stories of several patients undergoing third-trimester abortions. Most elected to have the procedure after learning of severe fetal anomalies that would prevent their babies from living healthy lives. In such cases, the pregnancies were planned and the parents hold funerals for their stillborn infants.

One young patient, a college student, was raped and in denial about her pregnancy for months. Another spent several months saving up for an abortion, and by the time she had the money, she was more than 28 weeks pregnant.

The film shows how women often ponder their decision "for days, for weeks, some of them for months trying to get help and not being able to find it," said Carhart, a Vietnam veteran who has been providing abortions since the late 1980s.

But, it's a lot more fun to villify the bad women who get abortions and the doctors who perform them.

Post by del on Jan 28, 2013 20:03:58 GMT -5

It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the Government have too much or too little power, and that the line which divides these extremes should be so inaccurately defined by experience.
-- James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, October 17, 1788.

Post by Nice Kitty on Jan 28, 2013 21:06:39 GMT -5

I might have been that abortion in 1966, if abortion had been legal in those days. I don't see it as a reason why I'm entitled to tell other women what their decisions should be about bringing a child into the world. It's a huge responsibility and can be a tremendous risk to a woman's life and health. I almost died bringing my son into the world.

Post by mal on Jan 29, 2013 6:29:15 GMT -5

I might have been that abortion in 1966, if abortion had been legal in those days. I don't see it as a reason why I'm entitled to tell other women what their decisions should be about bringing a child into the world. It's a huge responsibility and can be a tremendous risk to a woman's life and health. I almost died bringing my son into the world.

You and I are apparently different that way.

It's a good thing not all people are the same... Life would be boaring...

Post by Hue Jidiet on Jan 29, 2013 14:37:48 GMT -5

So, other people should be prohibited from making decisions because they might regret them down the road?

That's the one thing that I consider that I own fully: my mistakes.

That's not what I'm saying.

If anything there should be unbiased counseling involved, education, support systems, follow up mental health care.

One of my friends who had an abortion regretted it after she got married and had a baby a year later.Her daughter became pregnant as a teen, abortion never popped out of my friends mouth. She was willing to be a support system for her daughter.

I have been pregnant four times, none of them 'convenient' at all, after I was told I couldn't have children. I lost my first one to miscarriage. I was stunned at how hard I grieved.My other three pregnancies were truly all surprises. My husband claims it's his super sperm.

Post by plotthickens on Feb 1, 2013 20:17:27 GMT -5

It is a shame that anyone has to resort to an abortion. It is a tough decision to make. Only the mother can make the right decision though, just as anyone else makes any other decision about their body. So we should be trying to reduce the things that lead to decisions to abort.

Restrictive abortion laws do not lead to less abortions. They lead to illegal abortions. The least abortions occur where contraception, advice, family planning, child care, parental leave, and abortions are safe, legal and free.

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plasmaball: Yes a woman's Orgasm is like trying to spot the wild snow leopard. You must wait weeks upon maybe months and if you are lucky you might spot a small puddle from this cunning creature called the orgasm. its more like sometimes you have to fake it becauseFeb 7, 2013 12:05:17 GMT -5